42 U.S.C. § 290bb–21 — Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

(a) Congress sets up a Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (the "Prevention Center") inside the Administration. A Director, picked by the Secretary, runs it. That Director must have deep experience or academic training in preventing drug or alcohol abuse. (b) The Director of the Prevention Center must: (1) Sponsor regional workshops on preventing drug and alcohol abuse by lowering risk and building resiliency. (2) Coordinate the findings of research the Service's agencies fund on preventing drug and alcohol abuse. (3) Work with the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the states to study prevention and spread and apply research that makes prevention work better. (4) Create effective literature on preventing drug and alcohol abuse, including education on the effects of abused drugs, including newly emerging ones. (5) Work with the Secretary of Education to make sure prevention materials reach states, their subdivisions, and school systems widely. (6) Support clinical training for health professionals who prevent and treat substance use and misuse, and for other professionals involved in educating people about and preventing illicit drug use. (7) Work with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create and share materials that raise awareness, among people at the highest risk of substance use disorders, about preventing the spread of diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis. (8) Run training, technical assistance, data collection, and evaluation for programs funded under the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986. (9) Support new, community-based programs that lower young people's risk of alcohol and drug abuse and build their resiliency. (10) Work with the Attorney General to create programs that prevent drug abuse among youth at high risk. (11) Prepare documentary films and public service announcements for TV and radio that teach the public — especially teenagers — about the health dangers of drinking and drug use, using private organizations and businesses to help make them when practical. (12) Develop and support new pilot programs to spot and stop students, especially in secondary school, from misusing anabolic steroids. (13) Make sure grant award criteria are applied consistently and grantees are watched over after they get funded. (14) Help and support states in preventing illicit drug use, including new and emerging drug problems. (15) Work with relevant stakeholders and with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create educational materials that help doctors and pregnant women make shared decisions about pain management and preventing substance use disorders during pregnancy. (c) To carry out subsection (b), the Director may make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements. (d) The Director of the Prevention Center must build a national database with information about substance abuse prevention programs. It must include information useful to public entities and information useful to nonprofit private entities.